Tuesday, July 11, 2017

Trained to Kill - Key Word 'Trained'

TRAINED TO KILL – Key word Trained

In Antonio Veciana’s book “Trained
to Kill” he explains how he was specially trained in psychological warfare,
propaganda and covert intelligence tradecraft after he was recruited by “Maurice
Bishop” in Havana, Cuba in 1960.

Veciana also says that he was
tested, given a lie detector test and chemical truth serum.

I have compiled excerpts from that
chapter in Veciana’s book that describes the training he received in detail.

Cord Meyer also describes some of
the training he received and testing he underwent while working as one of Allen
Dulles’ chief deputies at CIA in his book Facing Reality – from World
Federalists to the CIA.

In Sub-Rossa – The OSS and American
Espionage – Stewart Alsop and Tom Braden describe the testing and training they
underwent, as all OSS officers had to pass the tests and be vigorously trained.

Another OSS agent, Alan Seger, said
he used his OSS testing and training as part of his novel The Parallax View,
that was made into a movie starring Warren Beaty as a reporter who penetrates
an assassination operation that sets him up as a patsy. The part where they
strapped Beaty to a chair and force him to watch a program he said was part of
their official training.

Navy Commander Thomas Narut, a
neuro-psychologist stationed at the US Navy base in San Diego, told the London
Sunday Times that special tests are given soldiers to determine their viability
as assassins, and those chosen are forced to watch violent films to get them
used to it.

Narut said that they test Marines
with the Minnesotta Multi-fasic Personality Inventory (MMPI), a test that can
identify those with a “Passive-Aggressive” personality, the kind they looked
for in killers.

According to Dr. Herzog, when Lee
Harvey Oswald was classified as a delinquent by the New York City school
system, he was given the MMPI test and was classified “Passive-Aggressive,”
just the type of personality the Marines were looking for.